Arista 7060X5 64-Port 800GbE AI Data Centre Switch

The Arista DCS-7060PX5-64 is built for data centre spine fabrics that need dense, high-speed connectivity in a compact footprint. Its 32 OSFP ports and hot-swappable PSUs help teams expand AI and storage networks with fewer rack units while keeping cabling simpler.

Arista 7060X5 Switch Key Platform Specifications

  • Primary Use Case: Spine
  • Access Ports: 64
  • Port Configuration: 64×QSFP-DD
  • Maximum Port Speed: 400G
  • Routing Capability: Dynamic

Arista 7060X5 Switch Overview

As fabrics grow denser and east-west traffic becomes harder to place efficiently, infrastructure teams need more high-speed paths in less space while keeping operations predictable.

Built for High-Radix Spine Roles

The Arista DCS-7060PX5-64 is a spine switch for AI, cloud and storage fabrics where 400G connectivity, compact rack use and steady traffic handling matter in production.

Designed to Fit Dense OSFP Deployments

Its 32×OSFP port layout supports 2×400G per port, giving teams a practical way to build breakout designs and keep cabling under control. The 25,600Gbps switching capacity provides the headroom needed for busy spine layers.

Operational Headroom for Expanding Fabrics

With hot-swappable PSUs and a dense 1RU footprint, the platform helps simplify maintenance and preserve service continuity. It supports larger fabrics with fewer rack units and gives operators more room to expand without adding another switching layer.

Our team can help you assess where the Arista DCS-7060PX5-64 fits in your fabric design and plan a deployment that matches your growth and operational targets.

Arista 7060X5 Switch Key Features​

The Arista DCS-7060PX5-64 is a high-capacity networking platform for data center switching environments, providing a compact foundation for scalable fabric design and operational consistency.

High-Density Fabric Scaling

Compact 400G Access
The platform provides 32 OSFP ports with 2×400G per port, supporting dense high-speed connectivity in data center switching deployments.

Aggregate Switching Capacity
A 25,600 Gbps switching capacity supports large-scale east-west traffic flows within a fabric architecture.

Dynamic Routing Support
Dynamic routing capability enables the switch to participate in routed network designs without fixed-path constraints.

High-Bandwidth Pod Design
The port and capacity profile suits aggregation and leaf/spine architectures that require concentrated bandwidth at the network edge.

Operational Control And Routing

Routing Flexibility
Dynamic routing allows the platform to adapt to changing network topologies and traffic paths in routed switching environments.

Fabric Integration
The switch is designed to fit into data center fabrics where switching and routing functions must operate consistently at scale.

Deployment Consistency
The platform architecture supports repeatable network design across new and refurbished variants of the same model.

Speak to an Arista Networking Specialist

If you are planning a high-bandwidth switching layer or a routed data center fabric, our Arista experts can help align the DCS-7060PX5-64 to your topology and traffic profile.

Arista 7060X5 Switch Technical Specifications

Full specifications for this model are listed below.

Additional information

Product Family

Arista 7060X5

Product Series

7060PX5

Deployment

Data Centre

Target Organisation Size

Service Provider

Primary Use Case

Spine

Product Tier

Flagship

Network Architecture

Layer 3

Access Ports

64

Access Port Architecture

QSFP-DD

Total Ports

64

Maximum Port Speed

400G

Port Configuration

64×QSFP-DD

PoE

No

PoE Budget (W)

None

Stacking

Supported

Power Redundancy

Hot-swappable PSUs

Maximum VLANs

4096

Routing Capability

Dynamic

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Arista 7060X5 Switch Deployment Scenarios

The Arista DCS-7060PX5-64 is a high-radix 400G switching platform for dense data centre fabrics, media production networks, financial analytics estates and service-provider labs that need many fast paths in limited rack space.

AI and GPU cluster spines in data centres

In AI and GPU pods, infrastructure teams need many 400G links with strong path diversity and minimal footprint. This platform supports compact leaf-spine designs where east-west traffic between accelerators and storage must stay predictable under load.

Render farm and shared storage fabrics

Media facilities use it where render nodes, ingest systems and finishing suites all hit shared storage at once. The dense 400G layout helps reduce contention during project peaks and keeps the core fabric manageable for lean operations teams.

Analytics, replay and risk workloads in finance

Financial platforms see short, intense bursts from market-data replay, simulation and backtesting. The DCS-7060PX5-64 gives teams a low-latency aggregation layer with enough radix and buffering to absorb traffic spikes more predictably.

High-speed development and validation labs

Software teams can build repeatable labs for AI development, distributed builds and private-cloud validation without adding another switching tier. That matters when many mixed-speed endpoints must be recreated often by small platform teams.

5G core and service-cloud test fabrics

Telecom engineering groups need dense 400G connectivity for NFV, MEC, packet generators and appliance validation. This switch helps keep cabling under control while giving test environments the port density needed for fast iteration.

Planning an Arista DCS-7060PX5-64 Deployment?

We can help design and deploy an Arista DCS-7060PX5-64 fabric for AI clusters, production media, finance, development labs and telecom test environments, with the right topology, scale and recovery approach for your operations.

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